Job Description

SPATIAL DATA SPECIALIST - EDINBURGH - Contract

Our Edinburgh based client has an urgent requirement for an experienced Spatial Data Specialist,

The Spatial Data Technical Specialist is responsible for advising, designing, following and monitoring processes that ensure the integrity and auditability of the data sets. Some of the work is in response to data or service requests from people requiring specific spatial data sets.

Both ArcGIS and Geoserver are run in-house, and the team uses FME and Snowflake GoLoader extensively. Among the backdrop data sets managed are Ordnance Survey (OS) MasterMap, OS AddressBase and aerial photography.

The specific responsibilities are:

Design, refine, follow and monitor procedures for transforming, storing, cataloguing and distributing data, and for correcting data integrity and quality.

Use a variety of specialist geospatial software to achieve the above tasks

Monitor the performance of the above tasks, and solve and repair issues when appropriate

Configure and monitor the use of specialist geospatial software

The job involves working closely with technical professionals including database administrators, system administrators, solution architects and spatial data experts.

Essential Skills

Solid knowledge and experience of data management concepts and tools

Hands-on experience of manipulating and managing geospatial data

Knowledge and experience of metadata concepts and use

Knowledge of Python and SQL

Understanding of FME

Hands-on experience of programmatic database access and manipulation

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